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Friedrich, Jasper; Shanks, Rachel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all Scottish state secondary schools (n = 357). Against the backdrop of large-scale shifts from disciplinary societies to ones dominated by 'neoliberal governmentality' identified by Foucault and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Uniforms, Secondary Schools, Public Schools
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Thornberg, Robert – Ethnography and Education, 2007
The aim of this study is to investigate and explain inconsistencies within the social constructions of school rules as they take shape in everyday interactions between teachers and students, and to explore how students interpret these inconsistencies. An ethnographic study is conducted in two primary schools in Sweden. According to the findings,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Culture, Discipline Policy, Dress Codes